#70s television

[autismsupersoldier]

biblically accurate columbo

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[retropopcult]

[jessicatates]

These are the Tates. And these are the Campbells. And this is...

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Saturday morning TV bumper - NBC (1979)

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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus // Episode Two: William Tell

[vintage-tigre]

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Wednesday, July 12.

1970s.

Ah, those were the days...

...not that we were there, of course. But we can sure as sugar pretend: listen to dusty vinyl records, grow our hair in all manner of styles, write on typewriters, watch films from the innovative "New Hollywood" directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Kopple, and Francis Ford Coppola if we're feeling artistic, neigh, intellectual (or sit down with Star Wars, Jaws, Rocky, and Saturday Night Fever if we're not), go to a lot of protests, recall our most grisly, harrowing memories from 'Nam, wear high-waisted trousers, and try to sneak into Fleetwood Mac's ever destructive, irresistibly sexy inter-band drama. 

In short, there was a lot happening in the 1970s, or indeed, the #70s, all of it big, bold, colorful, yet earthy, and very often brilliant. It was a decade of immense cultural, political, and societal change, much of it for the better, and much of it that, at the very least, continues in spirit to our own day. The 70s is not such a period of time, indeed, but a state of mind. 

[officialjanetweiss]

That Girl (1966-1971)

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Opening title sequence. Police Woman - 1974.

[thegikitiki]

America's Most Exciting Home Video Game, 1975

[misterwhirly]

Lynda Carter

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I think it's interesting that they made Columbo so nice, especially in comparison to the hardboiled detectives in other cop shows. Like when he tells Johnny Cash, "A guy who sings like you can't be all bad" and it's like, Frank, sir. He jumped out of a plane to commit double homicide. He BOGOed murder, Lt. Columbo.

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[astralbondpro]

Monty Python's Flying Circus // S03E02: Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

[officialjanetweiss]

That Girl (1966-1971)

[stone-cold-groove]

Angels in chains.